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Becca Aaronson is the Director of Product at Chalkbeat, the nonprofit education news network. She oversees digital product development, visual journalism and audience strategy. Previously she spent nearly eight years at The Texas Tribune where she reported on health care and public policy before co-founding the data and visuals team. At the Tribune, she learned to code and designed, built and managed several award-winning investigative projects. She also became their first-ever product manager and led their website redesign, among other strategic initiatives. She has a bachelor’s degree in cultural theory from Scripps College in Claremont, Calif.